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@Bones The win % says more than the total number of wins.

He's no Laurie Mains, but everyone's gotta have goals.

John Mitchell done so dirty by that graphic

Foster seems like a guy a little out of his depth, Mitchell has always seemed like a KHunt. So not done dirty at all in my book.

At least Foster's players genuinely seem to be fond of him. Not sure any of Mitch's players would lay on a grenade for him. I dislike the man for clear reason. His only redeeming feature is that he has a son that plays cricket for NZ and does it very well

He gave some pretty clear reasons for why he dropped Cullen but by Christ they went down like a shit sandwich.

I guess that comes down to was a case of was a 80% Cullen as good as 100% MacDonald/Blair ?

……so many on here have had a go at Foster for NOT dropping guys that are that tiny bit past it so it kinda proves you can’t win as an AB coach no matter what you do.

Not sure why you're implying the problem with Mitchell was merely Cullen (and yes his reasoning was utter b/s).

I’m not I’m just using one example and even the biggest fans ( of which I was one ) have to admit he wasn’t the player he was.

To engage you in your one example, even if he wasn't the player he was he was still the best 15 in the country in 2003. France managed to get performances out of Blanco after he wasn't the player he was.

Quite frankly Mitchell got lucky with the Blues centre after early trying a Blues winger at fullback.

Yeah but Cullens whole game relied on extreme pace and mobility which he didn’t quite have anymore. It’s debatable whether that version of Cullen was better than MacDonald/Blair. Fully fit from a couple of years back ? No contest.

I’m not defending Mitchell but I can see his point.

That's revisionist mate. Cullen was still one of the two best FBs in NZ, if not the best that year. I remember at one presser John Mitchell tried to explain that CC used poor technique when running with ball in hand, which was a ridiculous way to seemingly try to humiliate him

Mitchell is just a C### amd a complete joke. . Cullen was the greatest full back in the history of the game IMHO.

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